Night and Day Bench

Picture the spherical earth as a flat map, and then imagine the pattern of sunlight and darkness caused by the earth’s constant rotation around its axis. Every 24 hours, each point on earth experiences a sequence from day to night to day again. The pattern on this bench represents a full 24 hour rotation of the earth, from dusk to nighttime and dawn, through twilight to sunrise and daylight, and finally to sunset followed by twilight and dusk again.

Click here for a short Q&A with Diespeker about how the bench came to be.